Grobbelaar hails line dance

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THE SPIRIT OF BRUCE GROBBELAAR was summoned in the Ataturk Stadium on Wednesday night and the man himself watched admiringly 6,000 miles away. The former Liverpool goalkeeper was hailed by Jerzy Dudek as the inspiration for his antics in the penalty shoot-out against AC Milan and the Zimbabwean was happy to return the compliment yesterday.

Grobbelaar’s famous wobbly-knee routine appeared to distract his opponents during Liverpool’s shoot-out win over AS Roma in the 1984 European Cup final and, urged by Jamie Carragher to repeat the trick against Milan, Dudek pranced around on his line to seemingly good effect as three